Definition of rotisserie
1 : a restaurant specializing in broiled and barbecued meats
2 : an appliance fitted with a spit on which food is rotated before or over a source of heat
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Coop, his Caribbean-Asian rotisserie chicken fast-casual joint slated for the shipping container food hall in the Cass Corridor was supposed to come first.
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The bar menu is limited — rotisserie chicken and bites like pickled eggs — but its restaurant Ciudad is nearby.
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Leftover veggies and grains with either an egg on top or some rotisserie chicken is my favorite no-recipe dinner.
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SEATTLE -- Wall Street is feeling gloomy about Costco's prospects following last week's bombshell announcement that Amazon was buying Whole Foods, but can the warehouse giant's $4.99 rotisserie chicken and $1.50 hot dog meal save it?
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Wall Street is feeling gloomy about Costco’s prospects following last Friday’s bombshell announcement that Amazon was buying Whole Foods, but can the warehouse giant’s $4.99 rotisserie chicken and $1.50 hot dog meal save it?
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There is even a riff on pollo a la brasa, Peru’s ubiquitous rotisserie chicken, which instead gets smoked and spiced with cardamom and shoyu, plus a Black Angus burger with a bao bun dyed black with squid ink.
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Ohio folk-rockers will headline an all-ages show in soon-to-close Mexican rotisserie.
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Grease dripping onto floor from chicken cooking in rotisserie oven.
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Origin and Etymology of rotisserie
French rôtisserie, from Middle French rostisserie, from rostir to roast — more at roast
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Definition of rotisserie
: of, relating to, or being a sports league consisting of imaginary teams whose performance is based on the statistics of actual players a rotisserie baseball league
Origin and Etymology of rotisserie
from La Rotisserie Française, restaurant in New York City where a group of fans began the organization of a fantasy baseball league in 1979
ROTISSERIE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of rotisserie for English Language Learners
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: a piece of equipment that turns meat over a source of heat so that it cooks on all sides
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